@Perrin42

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He/him, white cishet, imperfect ally but trying.
25 years in IT in the aviation, medical/legal, and utility industries.
Late-diagnosed ADHD. Extremely introverted.
I post and boost US politics, sci-fi, tech, gaming, social commentary, bad jokes, and bad poetry.

Scoop: Security upped for Rep. Jamie Raskin after alleged incident

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/jamie-raskin-taylor-taranto-obama-security-court

Scoop: Security upped for Rep. Jamie Raskin after alleged incident

A man who previously threatened Raskin and Obama was allegedly recording video near the congressman's home.

Axios
To be fair, the justices are not technically wrong that the standard here, which the district court reviewed, was that if the gerrymandering was for partisan reasons, it's legal. It's only illegal if it was for race. But that allows the justices to just out & out say "THIS IS FOR PARTISAN REASONS!"

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/post/3m777nz555s2v
So they don't even have to pretend "pure motives." They just have to say "this was for partisan reasons, not because of race" and they win. It's disgusting and stupid, but that's where we are.
Absent overwhelming, verified evidence from long reliable sources, it is absolutely reasonable to consider EVERYTHING said publicly by Trump, his cabinet, his minions, or anyone else related to his administration and the federal government under his control -- IS A LIE. This isn't rocket science, it's common sense. Citizens of many other fascist countries learned this kind of lesson long ago. Now it's our turn.
This is how I learned that Meta has been continuing its bizarre, $70 billion "metaverse" spending *years* after I assumed they'd given up. It's possible that this is, in dollars spent, the biggest waste of money in history.

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metave...
Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit

Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

The New York Times
Say what I may about government software procurement failures, I've never seen a project blow more than a couple of billion dollars. $70 billion is absolutely next-level.
This does remind me of the time I started a heated (no pun intended) debate by posing the question, what if he said "Tea, Earl Grey" and got interrupted? Janeway just said "Coffee, black" and hot coffee came out. Iced coffee exists but the replicator made it hot without being told so.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5rdwy6ymj2vwgnvhy42a3g7a/post/3m77f2k4fms2b
Microsoft, after embracing Elon Musk on stage at Build and in product, has abandoned their yearly diversity report. https://www.theverge.com/tech/838079/microsoft-diversity-and-inclusion-changes-notepad